Open AccessForm Follows Function: How to Build a Deadly Trap
Author(s) -
Anja Geitmann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.023
Subject(s) - biology , trap (plumbing) , carnivorous plant , function (biology) , predation , ecology , evolutionary biology , physics , meteorology
The carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba forms cup-shaped leaflets to capture prey. Whitewoods et al. (2020) use computational modeling to simulate the formation of the trap's 3D geometry. Directional expansion of the young leaflet is proposed to be a crucial morphogenetic driver, pointing at a fundamental principle of plant development.
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